Canada’s
Classé Audio, long known for state-of-the-art, cost-no-object sound
reproduction has just introduced their new Omega Omicron Mono Power
Amp. The Omega Mono power amplifier features a towering,
single-channel, vertical design that delivers as much as 3 kilowatts to
real-world loudspeaker loads, able to extract unequalled dynamics and
detail from the most demanding recordings, even when driving the most
difficult of loudspeaker loads.

The Omega Omicron Mono
is the result of many hundreds of hours of critical listening tests
performed to evaluate circuit components, layout topologies, and
overall designs.

Even the form and composition of Classé’s multi-layer circuit-board resulted from extensive listening evaluations.

Also like the original Omega amplifier, the Omega Omicron Mono design
especially emphasizes one keystone of reference-quality amplifier
performance: current delivery and stability regardless of the
low-impedance demands or reactive load presented by the loudspeaker. To
this end the Omega Omicron Mono employs a very large regulated DC power
supply utilizing a massive transformer and extended capacitance
reservoirs, ensuring that the critical internal supply voltages will
not “sag” under even the most extreme demands, and sensitive low-level
input and driver circuits will not be influenced by the necessarily
ever-changing condition of power supply and output sections. Equally
imposing output-stage current/voltage excursion potential ensures that
this unexcelled dynamic potential will not be compromised in passage to
the loudspeaker.

In keeping with the Omega design concept, the Omega Omicron Mono
amplifier capitalizes on balanced circuit topology from input to
output, ensuring the widest possible dynamic range under any real-world
conditions. (Both balanced and unbalanced inputs are provided.) The
Omega Omicron Mono is rated to deliver 300 watts to 8 ohms loads, and
600 and 1200 watts to 4 ohms and 2 ohms loads. In the rare but by no
means inconceivable instance requiring it, the Omega Omicron Mono will
remain stable with loads well below 1 ohms and produce in excess of
1800 watts. Hand-crafted entirely by Classé Audio at its Quebec
facilities and meticulously finished in the firm’s hallmark two-toned
billet-aluminum, the Omega Omicron Mono will be available in January,
2003 at a manufacturer’s suggested price of $10,000 per unit.